Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless his autobiography shows a marked kinship between Author Milne and Christopher Robin, his famed creature. Youngest and cutest of the three sons of John Vine Milne, owner and Headmaster of Henley House School, little Alan, thumb in mouth, could read at two, entered Westminster School at eleven, ceased being a prodigy the next year when he caught up to his older brother...
...chief losses are at halfback and fullback, where positions were left vacant by Robin Scully, who decided to graduate in three years, and Nap Hardenberg, a resident of South Africa, who has left school to join the British army. It Carr can fill these positions with reserves or Jayvees from last year or with two of the three or four capable kickers from the class of '42, he will have few major worries...
Growing Up. Christopher Robin Milne no longer goes hippity hoppity, nor looks behind curtains for tickly brownies, nor muses over a name for his dear little dormouse. The hero of When We Were Very Young, now 19 and a crack squash player, leaves Stowe prep school this term, goes next fall to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is winner of a ?100 scholarship in mathematics...
...time he was advising Colonel Robin, who was also President Wilson's unofficial representative to the Kremlin. Alex Gumberg was advising Lenin on policy toward the U. S. In the revolutionary confusion he also found himself acting as press censor, an unofficial job which evolved from the fact that he was hanging around the Kremlin and could speak English...
...Born. To Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka...